Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a wonderful, Happy New Year, and weekend!
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Are you getting enough water? | APEC Water
Most adults will lose between two to three quarts of water per day by way of normal body functions, but those who live in or work in warmer environments tend to lose more. Athletes for example, need to drink more water to balance their bodily fluids. For those people, drinking more water will make up for the bigger loss of water they had through perspiration, as well as in the regulation of body temperature.
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A Few Extra Pounds Are Good For You? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Compared to people with a normal weight (a BMI less than 25), the overweight (BMI between 25 to 30) had a 6 percent lower mortality rateâand both groups had a rate about 15 percent lower than the obese, especially the very obese (BMI above 35).
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Can my heart get healthier with water? | APEC Water
Cardiovascular diseases are, as a group, the leading cause of death in western countries. Sudden death from cardiovascular disease accounts for over 300,000 deaths per year in the U.S. Because of the importance of cardiovascular disease, major efforts have been made to identify risk factors and to take steps to reduce these risks.
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Worst Healthy Foods: Don't Get Fooled By These 8 "Healthy" Foods
Oatmeal
In theory, oatmeal is an ideal breakfast â you canât go wrong with whole grains and blood sugar-steadying fibre. But some super-sized fast food versions contain added sugar and excessive calories. McDonaldâs Fruit and Maple version, for example, packs 290 calories and 32 grams of sugar. Jamba Juiceâs Berry Cherry Pecan Oatmeal has 340 calories and 27 grams of sugar.
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Happy New Year! If eating more nutritious foods fits into any of your healthy resolutions for 2013, January can seem like a bleak time of the year to turn over a new leaf. Summer's juicy tomatoes and sweet corn are months away, and even fall's crispest apples seem to have dwindled on store shelves.
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30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
As Maria Robinson once said, âNobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.â Nothing could be closer to the truth. But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back.
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Fructose may trick your brain into overeating - TODAY Health
This is your brain on sugar â for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.
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Does Your Pale Skin Stop You From Getting Enough Vitamin D? | Men's Health News
According to a new study in Cancer Causes and Control, being whiter than Casper could prevent you from getting enough vitamin D (which your body makes after sun exposure), effectively limiting the amount of time you can spend in the sun before you start to burn.
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